Reviews
At Least Wave Your Handkerchief at Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Albanian Song
This is a journey into the mountains of southern Albania with producer Joe Boyd and engineer Jerry Boys. Boyd and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2017
Goitse a Thaisce
A trip down memory lane, Goitse a Thaisce(Come Here, My Darling) is also a clarion call to the uninitiated to...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2021
Anoura
In 2018 the Malian guitarist Anansy Cissé and his band were travelling to a festival in his hometown of Diré...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
Alento
The Portuguese accordion quartet Danças Ocultas describe their instrument of choice as a ‘dream machine’. Ever since they got together...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Wicked Light
Members of this young folk ensemble began their various musical careers playing spontaneously on the streets of France, Switzerland and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2023
Magg Tekki
Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff
Assiko Golden Band have been a fixture on the Dakar music scene for the past 20 years, representing the Senegalese...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2023
Chaos
On first play of this sparkling debut album from Nigerian 12-piece Lagos Thugs, it’s hard to believe you’re not listening...
Reviewed by Russel Higham in issue: March/2024
Frankie and the No-Go Road
A concept album that follows the trials and tribulations of an everyman hero named Frankie in his struggles through life,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2016
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The recordings of Lead Belly, made between his discovery in prison in 1933 by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2015
